Jim Walton

God, please get me through this situation.

or

God, help this person understand my perspective

or

God, I pray that the loan for my new truck will be approved.

Is God sitting up there on His cloud waiting for me to tell Him what He needs to do for me next? The God that knows the number of hairs on my head, the God that is bigger than I can comprehend, the God that allows me to breathe my next breath really needs to listen to me whine and complain about all that I think I need?  Gimme gimme gimme

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m realizing how easy it is to pray selfish prayers. I don’t think God wants to help us manipulate our situation as much as we think He should.

Jesus told us in Matthew 6:

⁹ With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. ¹⁰ Set the world right; Do what’s best-as above, so below. ¹¹ Keep us alive with three square meals. ¹² Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. ¹³ Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You’re in charge! You can do anything you want! You’re ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.